Railway.



Patented Oct. 24, |899. C. D. BENNETT.

H A l L W A Y (Application filed AprA 10, 1899.)

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WITNESSES.-

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CHARLES D; BENNETT, F ELIZABETHTCIVN, INDIANA.

RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,526, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed April l0, 1 899.

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that l, CHARLES D. BENNETT, of Elizabethtown,county of Bartholomew,and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Railways; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like figures refer to like parts.

The object of this invention is to make a practical metal tie for railways, one that will perform the service desired and yet be easy and cheap to make and manipulate.

Another object is to provide a safe and practical means for spiking the rail to the ties.

Another feature is to provide with the ties metal strin gers for rigidly supporting the rails at the joints, whereby the joints cannot be depressed.

Stillanother object is the combination, with these parts, of a nut-locking plate.

The various features of my invention will be more fully understood from the accompanying drawings and the description and claims l following.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the parts of the railway in place, parts being broken away, as shown. Fig. 2 is a plan of a portion of a rail and tie where the rail crosses the latter. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the tie with the end of a girder connected therewith and being an inside elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail of a spike, the split ends being shown in dotted lines bent upward. Fig. 5

` is a central horizontal cross-section of a part of the two ties and all of the connecting- Stringer. Fig. 6 is a cross-section of the upper part of a tie and nut-lock with the spike in place. i

In detail I make the cross-ties 1 in substantially the form of inverted-T beams, compris- Seral No. 712,444. (No model.)

allel with the extension of the head that overlaps the flange of the rail 4. The spikeisinsert ed into the spike-hole 2 and the two parts of the stem separated and turned upward around the lianges of the top of the cross-tie and across the top of the tie un til the extreme ends extend under the sides of the spike-head bearing against the flange of the rail. The head of the spike is then driven to its limit. The head has in addition to the lateral projection over the flange of the rail the side extensions 15, that rest upon the ends of the spike, and lower shoulders 16, that rest upon the tie or fish-plate.v Thus the ends of the spike are held down. This construction of railway will hold the rails securely in place. The spikes are withdrawn by claw-bars in the ordinary way after the ends are loosened and turned back and down; but at other times their hold on the tie is extremely strong, even stronger than in wood ties.

At joints of the rails l connect lthe ties with stringers 5, preferably formed, like the ties, in cross-section. The ends 6 are turned sidewise, as shown in Fig. 5, and secured to the webs of the ties by the bolts '7. The lower flange or base of the girders is provided at each end with a lap 17, that rests upon the base of the tie. This gives the girder a firm base-support. /Vith this support of the rails at their joints they will not yield to the strain, as is the case with wooden ties. The abutting ends of .the rails are connected by the fishplates 8 and the bolts 9. A nut-locking plate 10 is provided, shaped so as to fit snugly on the iish-plate and provided with notches 11 of such shape as to fit snugly about the nuts on said bolts 9. Said plate 10 has where it crosses the tie an extension 12, through which the spike 3 extends and upon which the ends of the parts of the stem of the spike are bent downward, as shown in Fig. 1; Where the parts of the spike-stem are turned up about said plate 12, as well as the top of the tie, notches 13 are provided. These notches 13 are of great value in resisting lateral movement of the ends of the spike, and thereby holding the rail more positively in place. The nut-locking plate 10 is putin place after the nuts are secured on the bolts 9. These nuts cannot be removed, therefore, until said plate 10 has been removed. The plate 10is also to IOO strengthen thejoint of the rails and the means for holding them in place on the cross-ties.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A metallic cross-tie for railways whose shape is substantially that of an inverted-T beam with a flat top or head, and a spike-hole extending centrally through the top of the beam and bifurcating to each side of the web of the tie.

2. In a railway, the combination with the rail, of a metallic crosstie whose shape is substantially that of an inverted-T beam with a fiat top or head being provided with spikeholes extending centrally through the top of the beam that bifurcate toeach side of the web, and a spike with a split stem whose parts extend through the spike-hole and are bent up about the ilanges of the top of the tie beside the rail.

3. In a railway, metallic cross-ties substantiallyin the shape of an inverted-T beam with a dat top or head with spike-holes extending centrally through the top of the beam and bifurcating to each side of the web and notches in the edges of the top of the tie beside the spike-holes, suitable rails, and spikes with theirst'ems split and extending through the spike-holes and turned up and fitting in the notches in the top of the tie and down upon the top of the ties beside the rails.

4. In a railway, a metallic cross-tie for railways Whose shape is substantially that of an inverted-T beam with a fiat top or head and a spike-hole extending centrally through the top of the beam and bifurcating to each side of the web of the tie, and a spik-e with the head adapted to overlap the lange of the rail and having side extensions and shoulders below said extensions to rest upon the tie the parts of the spike being long enough to extend around the flanges of the top of the tie and abut against the spike immediately under the head.

5. In a railway,suitab1e rails,metallic crossties whose shape is substantially that of an inverted-T beam with a flat top or head and provided with spike-holes extending centrally through the top and bifurcating to each side of the web and also notches in the anges of the top opposite said spike-holes, fish-plates, bolts and nuts for securing the ends of the rails together and a nut-locking plate fitting on said fish-plate and having notches to partially surround said ends and prevent their turning, and4 a iiange extending from said plate and resting upon the tie, said flanges having notches in its sides that register with the notches in the top ofthe tie.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of the witnesses herein named.

CHARLES D. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

LEWIS CONNER, W. E. SPRINGER. 

